As a young political geek, Matt Latimer dreamed of one day heading to Washington to work for a conservative president and usher in another Reagan Revolution. With the support of his slightly mortified liberal parents, he tried to do just that - but his youthful exuberance began to cool as he moved up the rungs of power.On Capitol Hill he worked for a Congressman who ´´misremembered´´ basic facts, assisted a U.S. Senator who hid from his own staff, and met another who cowed her male aides into carrying her purse.Finally ensconced in the White House as one of George W. Bush´s chief speechwriters, he soon realized that the post wasn´t at all what he´d envisioned. Less like Aaron Sorkin´s The West Wing and more like NBC´s The Office, D.C.´s most prestigious address turned out to be a bizarro world in which the major players were in some ways mirror opposites of their public images. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001976de/bk_rhde_002536_sample.mp3. ... (vollständige Produktbeschreibung -> siehe Tabelle unten)

As a young political geek, Matt Latimer dreamed of one day heading to Washington to work for a conservative president and usher in another Reagan Revolution. With the support of his slightly mortified liberal parents, he tried to do just that - but his...

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As a young political geek, Matt Latimer dreamed of one day heading to Washington to work for a conservative president and usher in another Reagan Revolution. With the support of his slightly
mortified liberal parents, he tried to do just that - but his youthful exuberance began to cool as he moved up the rungs of power.On Capitol Hill he worked for a Congressman who ´´misremembered´´
basic facts, assisted a U.S. Senator who hid from his own staff, and met another who cowed her male aides into carrying her purse.Finally ensconced in the White House as one of George W. Bush´s chief
speechwriters, he soon realized that the post wasn´t at all what he´d envisioned. Less like Aaron Sorkin´s The West Wing and more like NBC´s The Office, D.C.´s most prestigious address turned out to
be a bizarro world in which the major players were in some ways mirror opposites of their public images. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe. Audio sample:
http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001976de/bk_rhde_002536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.